The quintessential electric guitar with a 'bucker. The quintessential electric guitar with a 'bucker.

The Fender Standard Stratocaster Electric Guitar is the guitar design that changed the world. Includes select alder body, 21-fret gloss maple neck with a rosewood fretboard, 2 single-coil pickups and a humbucker bridge pickup, a vintage-style tremolo, and die-cast tuning keys. At this low price, why play anything but the real thing?

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I have played Fender guitars for nearly twenty years, and they have always been consistent in quality. I recently purchased this MIM Fender guitar (HSS) and it is really an awesome instrument. The color (Artic White) looks very classy and has a mint green pick guard, which makes it even more elegant. The action feels smooth and the fret board feels like silk. The pickups, however, will need an upgrade, in my opinion. The Humbucker sounds really good, but the other single coils are extremely noisy. In my opinion, this guitar will be flawless if the company adds better quality pickups. This can be remedied by replacing the three pickups altogether. I would replace them with a hotter, but noiseless, pickups. In my case, for example, I replaced the Humbucker with the Crunch Lab, the middle with an Area 67, and the neck with an HS3. This small upgrade will turn this guitar into a fine instrument suitable for intermediate, advanced, and professional players, and it will work wonders in both studio and live settings. Overall, I highly recommend this Fender guitar to anyone looking for a best value deal that does not compromise quality, elegance, and charm.I give it a 9 because the pickups need an upgrade. I will give it a 10 if this guitar includes a better quality pickups that are not as noisyGood quality. The color is exeptional. The action, intonation, fretboard, and sustain are excellent (out of the box), and it plays like silk!!!!!Best value for the price. One gets a very fine piece of instrument for the price

I bought this guitar to modify and becaue the transparent red finish is really cool. But, if you're someone looking for a very playable out-of-the-box guitar, I would honestly save my $$ or look at another type of guitar all-together. My collection did consist of all Epiphone LPs which I think are the best bang for the buck guitar on the market. Fenders have a tone all their own which I love. All in all, if you are looking for the sweet Fender tone and feel, go w/ a more expensive, all single coil strat. That's what I'll be doing on my next purchase.Bridge - From the store, the trem was horrible. Couldn't even do half-step bends w/o having to re-tune. The Fender website has awesome info on setting up your Strat. In using these available instructions and specs, my bridge now has an almost 2-point trem functionality. Pretty cool. Thanks Fender!

Pickups - The middle single-coil is decent and produces a nice Strat tone. Neck p/u is almost too noisy to use and the bucker is very weak. Metal? Not the kind I play. But it does "Buck the Hum" enough to give it some credible tone if you have a decent amp. Having no tone control for the humbucker is a big minus to me.

Tuners - Decent tuners on this guitar. Once I made adjustments to the bridge, it stays in tune pretty well. I do like the Fender "F" logos on the back of them. Nice touch.Nice and solid with a pretty good neck feel. I'm used to LPs so to me the neck is paper-thin. Good looking rosewood fretboard. Back of the neck is nice and slick. Very good finish. Mine is some kind of FSR w/ a transparent candy red finish and black pickguard. The wood grain is visable which (to me) is pretty cool.Value? 7 at best. Its a mexican strat.

If you buy this guitar you won't go wrong. Action, intonation, and neck set proper. Tune and play right out of the box. Nice new tones with the HSS and just a nice feeling guitar.Liked the humbucker, definetly adds some new tones to play with.Not a flaw on it. finish work is really nice.Couldn't have got a better deal, guitar is steal at this price.

This is a used guitar that looks absolutely new and was ready to play after tuning. The neck was straight with not fret buzz or any other discernable problems. The price was just right but the savings were astounding. Customer service promptly sent me the missing tremolo arm.

I love my new Strat, plays great . . sounds great! It was classisified as used, but still has the protective film on the pickgurard. (nice!) Even though it was advertised as "mint", it has a very,very noticable scratch/indentation on the back that was not mentioned in the ad. I still would have bought it, but expecting mint condition, I would have appreciated a "heads-up" on a significant flaw.

The purchase of this instrument was a real investment for me ...... always wanted to be able to play , but time, money all that ,made it difficult , got a pawn shop guitar ,was ok .......I met a friend at tennis who recommended Musicians Friend ........called up a few times with questions etc & and was advised that the Fender Stratocaster was the guitar to have .................I purchased an open box that was BRAND NEW , perfect price, performance and SERVICE !!! THANK YOU !!!!

Beautiful guitar, the frets were nice and smooth and candy apple paintIs perfect. The tone controls have to be turned way up to make a tonalDifference but that's OK . l have the rosewood neck which I love becauseOf the warm sound. The neck on mine is a little wide but I have very longFingers which make the neck ideal and restful to play for hours.Musicians Friend is great to do business with , they always stand behindThe products that they sell and make things right for the customer. ThanksI will be buying more music gear from you in the future sincerely Steve.

I use this guitar to record with. It has a pretty good tone to it. I am not a professional, nor is my recording equipment so this was a good fit in both quality and money for my use. I kind of feel like for the money Fender could put better pickups in these Standard Mexican Strats, but they are not horrible or anything. Would just like more bang for the buck I guess. As far as being ready to play out of the box, mine was fine. Action is good and in tune all the way up the neck. No buzz on any of the frets anywhere on the neck either. I bought the blue and it doesn't look anything like the blue in the picture. (which is good) I really dig the color. I searched online for real pictures of this color before deciding.

I have been playing guitar for 33 years. I play in two bands and do a good bit of studio work. I have owned several MIM (made in Mexico) Stratocasters. I like MIM guitars for working musicians. The pickups sound good and they are well built. I bought this one because I wanted a rosewood fretboard and a humbucker in The bridge position. My other MIM strat has 3 single coils w maple fretboard. If you don't want to spend the money for American fender, the MIM is a good choice. I did adjust the neck and the action at the bridge saddles as I always do to make them play like I want them to. But out of the box it was a good player and stays in the e very well.

I was kind of on the fence about buying one of these but I just couldn't resist. I got the Lake Placid Blue HSS with Rosewood fingerboard. I was immediately impressed by the construction of the guitar. The hardware is top notch, the finish is flawless, it plays perfectly and it sounds great. It was even set up properly out of the box. There is not a better value out there for a guitar. The price is well worth it for this quality of an instrument that would last a lifetime if maintained and taken care of.

I am very pleased with the quality of this guitar given the price. Of course, only time will tell, and I'll add a review in two years to see how it holds up.

Tone is great, action is wonderful, and just very pleased. Only giving four stars for two reasons:

1) Product was packed terribly. I bought a Blackstar mini-amp and I guess they threw it in the box. The box was half OPEN when it arrived. Fortunately the guitar arrived without any defects due to shipping.

2) The volume and tone knobs, and the humbuckers are shown on the website as being the color white. In the guitar I received, they are all black. Doesn't do much for the aesthetics as they blend into the rest of the guitar where the white on black background looks much more attractive. I would return the guitar for this reason, but the quality and sound far outweighs this issue. It's a keeper.